Current Events > Do you like speedrunning history videos?

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Every time I try to watch one of these I never hear anything I want to retain.

It's always some guy reciting a list of mostly obsolete things people did on video games. I get if you're a speedrunner yourself studying up, but some of these get a lot of views and I don't see why.

Then at the end they all but tell you the video meant nothing. What works now will be invalidated sooner than later, like Ocarina of Time going down to 3 minutes.

I generally don't care about them, but the Goldeneye one, with the guy looking down thing, was pretty interesting.

SummoningSalt is amazing.

I'll watch summoning salts videos on YouTube, but not the actual speed running videos

i like them from the angle that speedrunning as a practice picks at the seams of games, and that often exposes the weird things they do to make them work.

speedrunning history videos are good noise videos too though. like you can tune out most of them and hear a neat fact and go oooh.

i just skip through them to get a basic idea of its contents. i hardly ever watch youtube vids in their entirety tho

sometimes i apply the showcased speedrun tech (the exploits) when i play the games that it covers just to get a better understanding of how difficult they would be to repeat throughout a run.

Fluttershy posted...

speedrunning history videos are good noise videos too though. like you can tune out most of them and hear a neat fact and go oooh.

This was the idea I got.
But I didn't like the idea of actual millions of people showing up just to half-heartedly tolerate the videos as background noise.

Just for fun, maybe the next time I meet someone who sounds lethargic and cynical enough, my opening line should be "I bet you watch Karl Jobst."

I more of a "salt in speedrunning" type guy.

Witnessing someone on a 1 hour + run get fucked over by bad RNG and descend into an absolute meltdown elevates my soul for some reason.

Watched a few for dark souls and fallout games, and found them interesting. But it could be because the focus in the videos was at the major turning points in the speedruns of those games. Like how a route was more or less nailed down. Then some guy posts a small clip somewhere and is like "hey, I found this weird glitch. Anybody know what happened" Speedrunners look into it and suddenly the old route has massive changes because this glitch knocks a solid 5 minutes off the old record before they even practice it a lot.

Quick off the top of my head, Dark Souls used to revolve around getting the black knight halberd, which was a random drop that was the first major restart point. Then somebody found a quantity dupe glitch and the whole run shifted to focusing on magic damage now that leveling stats and buying spells became a non-issue.

Other than summoningsalt and Karl Jobst, no. But those two have done a decent enough job that I don't mind watching their videos when they come out.

Ser_Jaker posted...

I more of a "salt in speedrunning" type guy.

Witnessing someone on a 1 hour + run get fucked over by bad RNG and descend into an absolute meltdown elevates my soul for some reason.

Oh I get this.
Local man broadcasts himself being backstabbed by the thing that keeps him sane to the world.
Heads he curses his existence, tails he blames the game.

At face value that's a lot more interesting sounding than a list of people who were briefly ranked 1st.

o hell yes

Ratchetrockon posted...

i just skip through them to get a basic idea of its contents. i hardly ever watch youtube vids in their entirety tho

sometimes i apply the showcased speedrun tech (the exploits) when i play the games that it covers just to get a better understanding of how difficult they would be to repeat throughout a run.

I try to imitate useful exploits I see in videos too, but it doesn't need a speedrunning history video.
If you just wanna learn how to prompt swap or do Sen's gate skip, you could just watch a speedrun with commentary over it or type it in to Youtube.

The speedrunning history video on the other hand will tell you all about how some guy years ago pioneered the trick and how many failed runs he did before he landed it in a real one.
If you're interested enough to watch the speedrunning history video, you've probably seen at least one speedrun of the game in question too so it's not even like the trick's gonna be new to you.

I'd hate being a speedrunner, dont have the patience and I tend to take my time with games. When something is a 10-15 hour game, I'll usually take 20.

Oh, you meant a video of speedrunning history, not speedrunning a history video.